What Metrics Should We Use to Measure Success?

Metrics are powerful tools, but they often miss crucial truths.

What If I Get Rejected?

Rejection is a bummer, for sure, but it's better than the alternative.

Telephones used to be attached to walls and transmit only voices. In some ways, that was better.

In a world where information is everywhere, it's increasingly important to know who's feeding you what, why, and how.

Nature and culture conspire to create people who are never quite complete. And it's a good thing, too.

Your ability to shape the world depends on what you attend to. So pay attention to this.

Reflections on telling nonfiction from nonsense.

No matter how well you know a thing now, it will likely look different to you someday, after your next existential transition.

Every year at Christmas, I wait for a certain feeling to reach me. And at some point, it always does.

You have a better chance of getting where you want to go by starting out lost and heading in the wrong direction than you do by just standing still.